What is the value of embracing moral as distinct from legal rights as part of the jurisprudence of human rights?
Cornwell could be considered something of an expert in Le Carré's work, given that he's the legendary spy novelist's son, but the sentiment is also echoed by fellow executive producer Stephen Garrett, who said, "Le Carré was way ahead of the game in terms of embracing moral ambiguity.
"It wasn't until President Romney truly introduced the country to Mormonism," the leading strain of Christianity in the world ever since 2040, "that we, as a people, began fully embracing morals and ethics.
One need not embrace moral relativism to recognize that even many terrorists believe in the justice of their cause.
Disrespectful of established authority, cut off from tradition, unattached to family or faith, Americans, we have been repeatedly told, embraced moral freedom only to experience painful results.
Their account is thus historicist, but unlike most historicisms it does not embrace moral relativism.
On this view, there is a necessary connection between moral claims and action, but it is between these claims (or their truth) and reason (or rationality), and is not such that sincerely embracing a moral claim guarantees appropriate motivation.
Their victory was the fruit of putting aside tribalistic litmus tests on individual issues, and embracing a moral high ground centered around the common good.
While the Republican candidates have spent plenty of time attacking the doctrine of moral relativism, ironically, they have embraced a moral vision in which the concern for the public good is wholly disregarded when it conflicts — even minimally — with their radical definition of personal freedom.
And the Republican base itself, which holds repellent views on any number of moral issues, including race, not only embraces the moral derelictions of Trump, but also encourages them.
Several landmark ethical theories have embraced these moral notions as central categories, while proposing strikingly different conceptual and moral analyses.
